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  • Backyard Success

    Backyard Success

    My father and I have been detecting for a couple of years never finding much but clad. I finally got into the hobby a bit more and purchased the E-TRAC! I un-boxed it and charged the battery overnigh…

  • Love my X-TERRA 705

    Love my X-TERRA 705

    Got out tonight. So I passed by town and I noticed the pond in town was very low due to the drought. So the park is super busy. I asked the town guy who cleans the park and he gave me a trash bag and…

  • V3i Finds Chinese Coins on the OR Coast

    V3i Finds Chinese Coins on the OR Coast

    This is a photo of four ancient Chinese coins I came across recently while beach detecting on the N. Oregon coast, using my new Spectra V3i. The stretch of beach where I found the coins has lost quit…

  • 1829 Capped Bust Dime

    1829 Capped Bust Dime

    A friend of mine invited me to hunt with him where he had found a large cent. We were there for about an hour and his wife called and said she was ready to eat. As she informed him of this, I pulled…

  • Old Coin For Austalia

    Old Coin For Austalia

    Hello my name is Jordan. I'm 13 and I've been metal detecting for 3 years now and this is my 1881 coin found in Camden, NSW. This is now my best find but not my oldest, my oldest is an 1879 sixpence…

  • Day Three and the E-TRAC Pays For Itself!

    Day Three and the E-TRAC Pays For Itself!

    This whole mess of metal detecting started when my friend got his first Bounty Hunter and showed me how it worked in the front yard of my house. I was instantly intrigued and thought it was very inte…

  • Iron... The E-TRAC Laughs at Iron!

    Iron... The E-TRAC Laughs at Iron!

    This has been one of the best weeks of detecting I have ever had. I went back to an old site that once had a Church on it. This site is so loaded with iron it is almost impossible to hunt in anything…

  • Rare Sword Belt Returned!

    Rare Sword Belt Returned!

    I recovered a sword belt plate this spring from the Schoharie valley in upstate New York after the floods with my White’s VX3. The plate was rare from the Holland society which was founded in N…